NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3931, 16 April 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A piano with walnut ease was sold for 3/- alt an auction at Weybridge, England. 'Snick, the best-known dog in Wanganui, has passed out of human ken (reports the Herald). The mascot of the city lire Station, there was not a lire in Wanganui for years that he had not attended, and there are few people in Wanganui ■who did not knoiw him. That the use of a flat-bottomed boat for. Ashing purposes on Lake Te Anau was tantamount to coui’ting disaster, was the opinion expressed during the hearing ,of the' evidence at the inquest on the victims of the Lake Te Anau drowning tragedy. William Horace Thomas and James Douglas Kirkland were the victims and without retiring, the jury at Invercargill on Wednesday, retm'ned a verdict that deceased were accidentally drowned in LaJke Te Anau on March 30 ,by the accidental upsetting of a flat-bottomed boat.

Ambergris, that rare substance Which, used in 'the manufacture of perfumes, is discovered east up on sea beaches, is to be found in stranger places, if one is to believe a local practical joker (says the Invercargill ‘Times). Placed promi-i nently in the window of the building at present in the course of erection at the corner of Esk and Dee streets is a peculiar looking black object, which, according to a rough placard on it, is “a piece of ambergris found by W. Forrester on Lewis’ buildings, Invercargill, weight 66 ounces and value £2,000.” ‘So incongruous is the .substance appearing in la window filled with rubbish, including a number of very old boots to which price cards have been attached, and open to the public, that local Scotsmen, momentarily attracted by the sight of the Mack substance, passed it by with a disdainful glance after satisfying themselves as to its value.